Why did terrorists attack The World Trade Center and The Pentagon?

Answer 1

Bin Laden was suffering from a severe lack of diplomacy. It should be remembered that a fourth plane was (theoretically) headed to auger into the White House, but was thwarted by the heroic actions of US citizens.

Answer 2

Osama bin Laden had a deep hatred for the west. He believed the United States was at war with Muslims, and he opposed American foreign policy. Bin Laden saw the World Trade Center as a symbol of American capitalism and Imperialism, and believed that if he destroyed it, this would make an important statement and inspire other jihadists.
They hit the World Trade Center Towers because Osama Bin Laden was angry with the US, so he had hired men to crash the World Trade Center and and two other destinations, The Pentagon and the U.S. Capital Building, it has successfully hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon but, the flight heading to the U.S. Capital Building was taken over by the people on the people on the plain that plain landed in Shanksville Pennsylvania.

Answer 3

Terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center i New York City on September 11, 2001. The exact motives of the terrorists is not known. It seemed to be a statement against US foreign policies in the Middle East.

Answer 4

Purpose of Attacking America
Osama bin Laden spoke ad nauseum about his rationale for attacking the United States and his reasons can be split primarily into two categories:

1. The United States provided a morally degenerate alternative to Shari'a-compliant government (secular democracy) and exported it to other countries, thus usurping Islam's natural right to rule the world. (Now, it should be mentioned for clarity's sake that not every Muslim believes what Osama bin Laden believes about Islam's rightful place in society. There are numerous Muslims who believe in secularism.)
2. The United States actively opposed the will of Islamic Nations or their people's desires in several particular actions of US policy, such as placing "Christian soldiers" in Saudi Arabia, supporting Israel against Arab Muslim armies, reversing course on the Indonesian genocide of East Timorese Christians (e.g. stopping the genocide of Christians by Muslims), and numerous other foreign policy grievances.

"Permission" to Attack America
There are numerous fataawa (fatwas) that Islamic Extremist groups like bin Laden used to base their attack on 9-11.

There are three major fataawa that went into the "Islamic concept" of the validity of suicide bombings against civilians. This idea paved the way for the attacks of 9-11, but did not necessarily cause them. (This required actual planning and actual grievances.)

1. Accepted in Traditional Islam and by most Imams: There is a ruling that martyrdom for Islam is permitted through suicide attacks in certain conditions. This martyrdom is considered a consecration by the faithful person of his life to defend Islamic virtue which is usually construed as Muslim lives or Islamic core values (such as the ability to practice the religion). Most Muslims hold that this form of martyrdom can only be used against an enemy combatant as opposed to civilians since killing a civilian without cause is a violation of the Qur'an's valuation of human life.
2. Accepted since it comes directly from the Qur'an: Any Muslim can rise up against oppression in his midst, especially if that oppression comes from a non-Muslim army. (Q: 2:191-193)
3. Controversial and Accepted by few Imams: The citizens of democracy are combatants because they choose the government that sends a military and may be conscripted to join that military.

Bin Laden asserted that American troops in the Middle East, the US Support of the State of Israel, the US Support of the Independence of East Timor, the US failure to force all of its citizens to convert to Islam, and several other actions were sufficient to prove United States oppression by military means. (Whether this is sufficient evidence or not is controversial, but Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda seem to hold that it is.) Therefore, any Muslim had the right to fight the United States military or occupying force (Ruling 2). Once this is clear, the Muslim can select any method that he wishes to use to attack the United States military and Bin Laden decided to use the suicide bomber (Ruling 1).

The controversial next step of these rulings is when instead of attacking the United States military, Bin Laden chooses to attack the United States civilians since the United States is a democracy that "willingly chooses to oppress the Muslims" (Ruling 3). Most Muslims argue that attacking civilians violates the Qur'anic valuation of human life and respect for the non-combatant.

The reason for discussing this at length is to note that the grounds for the belief of the applicability of the legal doctrine may go back much further than the Islamic legal doctrines themselves. (Sometimes Bin Laden would stretch his claim back to the time of the Crusades, long before suicide bombing or planes were conceived.) Therefore, these events are not necessarily time-connected with the actual fataawa that "legitimate" 9-11. Additionally, the Qur'anic verse that serves as the basis for Ruling 2 was not conceived during a time when there was any semblance of an America or "Western oppression". Therefore, the fataawa as well are not time-connected with the events in which they applied. It is only an individual who takes these pre-existing fataawa and pre-existing conditions and says that the conditions fall under the purview of these fataawa.

Answer 5

The first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City was a bomb attack that created an explosion in the basement parking areas of the "twin towers" in NYC. This was during the Bill Clinton administration in 1993. The second and infamous airliner attack that destroyed the World Trade Center and killed almost 3,00 people was in 2001, under the Bush administration. Both attacks were designed to punish the US for its foreign policies in the Middle East. Ironically the CIA director under President Bush was the same person that had been the CIA director under President Clinton.

Answer 6

The World Trade Center Represented our success and our great society here in the USA

Answer 7

It was seen as a symbol of the wealth and economic power of the United States.

Answer 8

They saw them as symbols of American economic might.